The GSA holders without "Uncirculated" on them sometimes made the coins harder to sell. Hence you heard the cracking sound. Also albums were a lot...
From what I have understood, these GSA dollars were graded by some college students the GSA hired. They gave them a quickee course in grading and...
Yes, these toned coin bring more money than they should, and they encourage coin doctors to ruin coins that were okay before they started messing...
Links don't pose a problem if they are some place like Great Collections or eBay. The trouble can start when the link is to somewhere that is...
Given the fact that the "We" is weak, I would give it a VF-30, but that's the old grade before "grade-flation" took over. I sold several of these...
When you have the chance, you should down load a picture and post it here so that everyone can see the counterfeit before it gets taken down on...
I have been a collector for over 60 years. At first, I didn’t care for certified coins, but now it’s about all I buy for U.S. coins. I still...
From what I have read, Augustus got better with age. One might say the same thing about Brady. Here is my Augustus coin, a denarius. The charging...
I am probably wrong, but if it is 25 pence, that is about 32 cents in U.S. money. When I took a trip to England years ago, a pound didn’t buy much...
Demonitized with a collector value of about $3. It has no melt value. In conversations with a London coin dealer, he told me they almost never...
I have heard that the Chinese can legally counterfeit anything that was minted before 1948. That dates from their revolution. The coins after that...
Yes, Whitman calls that series “Red Books,” which is confusing. I guess it’s a marketing thing. I generally buy one edition of those books and...
It is an 1804 half eagle. As such, it is not worth anything close to $100,000. It’s probably at the low end of 5 figures. It’s a nice coin, but...
I don't know what you mean by a "population census" in the Red Book. The Red Book only lists mintages and prices with the number known for some...
Cameo Proof coins from the 1936 to 1942 era are quite scarce. The pieces that make to "Cameo" designated holders might be rare. I bought this 1939...
@GoldFinger1969, your observation about the Matte Proof 1909 cent is exactly the reaction collectors had toward them back then. They didn’t like...
I can’t see enough in the picture to know what to buy.
Yes, nice photos. I have no idea what this is. I have wasted hundreds of dollars on cameras connected to a computer. As soon as Microsoft modified...
You are on that limb by yourself. Look at the lettering at the top of the reverse. It’s weak in the wrong way. One way to detect counterfeits is...
This is as close as I will ever get to the 1909 - VDB Cent in Proof, the 1909 Plain. [ATTACH] One guy owns most of the population. He put it up...
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